I am building the ATI radeon driver and I have used defconfig to
configure the kernel ( in LFS ) and I need to add/config the following
to allow me to use the firmware for my graphics card according to the
BLFS book.
Is this now necessary ( to have the blobs installed into the kernel )?
I the the old days (LFS-7.5) all that was needed was to put the firmware
into the /lib/firmware directory and it would be loaded when xorg was
started. Has that been changed now?
Or will it still work that way?
As I would like to skip adding the firmware and rebuilding the kernel if
I can.
Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support) ---> [CONFIG_DRM]
<*> ATI Radeon [CONFIG_DRM_RADEON]
Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
Firmware blobs root directory
Set like this:
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/BTC_rlc.bin radeon/CAICOS_mc.bin
radeon/CAICOS_me.bin radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin radeon/CAICOS_smc.bin
radeon/JUNIPER_me.bin radeon/JUNIPER_pfp.bin radeon/JUNIPER_rlc.bin
radeon/JUNIPER_smc.bin "
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
Thanks
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